New Cross.Down Mexico Way

I think it all just cements our report that it was Mick. Not the sort of odd detail you would dream up to lie about - from thirty years earlier.

Mick had three identities, the third was possibly Dr Death.

Logan wouldd have been too heavy for a world lightweight title bout, surely. Even in 1949.

But as Ron says, Logan lacked experience then and it's questionable whether he could have carried it off as a novice.

What is interesting in all this is how Mick kept a lid on this detail over so many years. Just imagine what other secrets he took to his grave ....

In those days, the wrestlers were referred to as light heavyweights.

Here is the title that Kidd supposedly won -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Light_Heavyweight_Championship_(National_Wrestling_Association)

Thanks Paul and Ron. So it seems Mick's name wasn't out of the blue but the mystery deepens with Steve in the picture. One member has written in and said "Consulting my copy of Wrestling Title Histories, I find that no World Lightweight title has ever existed in Mexico, nor is there any record of a wrestler named Rudi Quarez. The closest I can get is Reuben Juarez, a heavyweight who worked in Los Angeles in the Seventies"

Not sure if Logan actually wrestled in 1949 although it was October 49 so he might just squeeze it.

Rudi Quarez was always going to be the name of the opponent as it was in the papers six weeks before.

Was Van Den Voss going to play Quarez.

Here is footage of Van Den Voss